Gotten a few e-mails and comments informing us that they are experiencing a couple of bad things on our website: (1) It is taking a little longer for the UMR pages to upload. (2) They are occasionally getting a 502 Error message when trying to bring up one of our webpages. So I contacted our web provider and found out a few things…some good and some bad.
Seems our little website has gotten very popular. That is a good thing….that makes us very happy. That however is causing some issues. Seems the traffic to our website is causing a traffic jam on the servers that host our pages. This is bad for us and for my website provider. The quick fix…though…an expensive fix….is to upgrade our website hosting agreement. In baseball terms…..it might be time to move from the minors and play with the big boys in the majors.
So…as we figure out which direction we want to take….we will be taking a short break from producing new material….we will keep doing our updates to our UMR pages….just not going to create anymore new pages. So basically this is our way of saying we are sorry for page delays you might be experiencing….and that we are working to get it fixed as soon as possible.
Just to mention that the site is a lot faster today, maybe it’s the time of day?
Hey Steve…Blue Host talked us into doing a cache upgrade…..it seems to have helped with the speed of the uploads….but screwed up countless other things….after playing around with it for two days….we went ahead and deleted the upgrade this morning….meaning we are back to square one. The craziest thing we found out is BlueHost says our hits are over 30,000 a day versus the 10,000 views a day that we originally thought. We will be keeping a close eye on the speed of the site….as we try and get a solution to the speed problem.
You gotta spend money to make money. I think your site can “play very well in the majors”. Your site has been one of my favorites for years.
Hey Anonymous….thanks for the encourage to “play in the majors”…..going to have a lot to do with cost…if we do that. Glad you have enjoyed this site for years….that makes me really happy to hear.